The TechPowerUp World Community Grid (WCG) team has been roaring up the rankings thanks to several dedicated participants. In celebration of our continued success, and in an effort to entice new members, we will be holding our first ever TechPowerUp WCG contest starting Monday, June 15th. This competition is geared toward ALL WCG members, not just those putting up huge numbers. Everyone has a chance to win a great prize! Here are the rules:

You must be a member of the TPU WCG by June 15th

You must accumulate at least 50,000 BOINC points over 90 days to be eligible

If you make it to 50,000 (and almost everyone can), your name will be put into a drawing for an awesome Xclio 1000 full tower case worth US $270! Free shipping to the winner of the drawing is included in the prize! The prize will be to any country/region.

We highly encourage anyone interested to sign up for the TPU WCG by June 16th!! Please contact the WCG forum moderator, paulieg with any questions.

It is but maybe it should have been prize thats smaller and can be shipped internationally.

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It's a trade off. Bigger prize, more participants or smaller prize/international shipping, more participants. It's always hard to make things work for everyone. Maybe the next contest we'll try a smaller prize and compare the two scenarios.

shoot, only in the US, It would have been a good time to put my 6 cores to the test. (Laptop has 2, desktop has 4) Maybe there will be a canadian contest some time, but then, it will probably not be open in my province...

Yea does kinda suck that can't ship internationally, although something that big will cost a fortune. If its really possible, all chuck in a $1 or something - pay for the shipping that way.

I will get back to crunching - i promise. Scouts honour.

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Seriously, why can't everyone just donate $.50 to shipping costs via paypal or something -- hell, I'd do that just to make everyone happy. If 40 or 50 people do that, there's your shipping money right there.

Seriously, why can't everyone just donate $.50 to shipping costs via paypal or something -- hell, I'd do that just to make everyone happy. If 40 or 50 people do that, there's your shipping money right there.

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I think we may do that with the next contest. This is kind of a test run to see how it goes. I truly appreciate the suggestions guys!